I'll have to check that out. As for the 1.56 MB novel, I've got that backed up in .pdf, .rtf, and .txt. I'e had a few such incidents myself.
> > > Good luck with the writing. Follow your muse! > > Are we allowed to see the pre-production efforts? Only too happy. I hope you're willing to suspend disbelief, because neither novel nor novella is set on Earth, or at least, on the Earth we know and love! ;) Pop around the St Albans Community Centre while I'm in - this Friday at least. I'll make copies for you. Wesley Parish Quoting Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > I will second that. > > For writing books, (La)TeX is the way to go. > > You get a book that has professional, production ready fonts. > > You get a book that is readily transformed into pdf, html or postscript. > > The html output is clean and concise. > > You get nice tidy files for the document source which easily backup. > > Your figures are handled in a nice fashion. (with abiword, the figure is > > duplicated in the file, adding to the source file size....) > With latex, figures are separate files in disk, and loaded when then > final document is generated. > > Your references/figures are all correct. LaTeX handles all the cross > references perfectly, with no effort. > > Sure, there are people that complain that LaTex doesn't do what they > want. > Yep, LaTeX is not for generating brochures. LaTeX is for generating > books. > > Sorry Wesley, but I speak from experience of writing a book, and > watching > others write books. The saddest thing is when you watch someone work > with > word, and then it goes kapput, and the document is "gone" > > Derek. > ====================================================== ==== > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:49, Andrew Errington wrote: > > > > I can report that AbiWord is a reasonable small Wordprocessor. It > does > > > > have a few minor issues, but it works satisfactorily. > > I tried it out quite a while ago and it installed a whole load of very > > > unsatisfactory fonts, totally stuffing up virtually every kde > application. > > I thought 'never again'. I hope it has stopped doing that particular > > misdemeanor. > > > > > > It doesn't like > > > > big files - I downloaded a 1.56 MB RTF document I had stored on a > > > > web-site of mine, and it took too long to load. It loads smaller > files > > > > quite quickly, and is the fastest of all the wordprocessors I have > tried, > > > > for small files. > > > > > > > > Just thought some of you out there might be interested in knowing > this. > > > > Anyone who needs a small, fast multi-platform wordprocessor > without all > > > > the bells and whistles ... ;) > > > > > > AbiWord v1.0.2 comes with Debian Stable (woody). I used it a couple > of > > > times, and quite liked it. To be honest, I haven't really fixed on > a > > > favourite wordprocessor with Linux. I like KWord, > > Yes, so do I. For that quick page or three it's not far off perfect > imho. > > I like the frames paradigm. > > > > > I find Open Office takes > > > too long to load, and AbiWord was nice. I reckon if I loaded up a > later > > > distro I'd get better apps but for now I don't much care. At least > I > > > *have* a choice. > > > > > > Good luck with the writing. Follow your muse! > > Are we allowed to see the pre-production efforts? > > > > For writing books there is not much to go past (La)TeX. > > The LyX front end makes it more or less usable by anybody. ( Actually > a great > > deal more than less ) LyX is a _lot_ faster to set up than trying to > coax the > > pure WYSIWYG offerings to produce what you want. > > > > http://www.tug.org/ > > http://www.lyx.org/ > > > > For more DTP type of things I have also found Scribus to be very > usable. > > > > > > -- > Derek Smithies Ph.D. This PC runs pine on linux for email > IndraNet Technologies Ltd. If you find a virus apparently from me, it > has > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] forged the e-mail headers on someone else's > machine > ph +64 3 365 6485 Please do not notify me when (apparently) receiving a > Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ windows virus from me...... > > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
